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5. India’s Space Programme

verfasst von : Ajey Lele

Erschienen in: Asian Space Race: Rhetoric or Reality?

Verlag: Springer India

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Abstract

In 1963, India’s entry into the space field made a nascent beginning from a small church in Thumba village in the southern parts of India. It started with launching of sounding rockets in 1963. At that time, the purpose behind investing in space technologies was for scientific investigations of the upper atmospheric and ionospheric phenomenon above the geomagnetic equator. In India, the geomagnetic equator passes through Thumba village (Kerala state in India). During 1960s, the only suitable building to start this job was a church in this village [1]. From this village, India launched its first sounding rocket on November 21, 1963. Over last four to five decades, India’s space programme has made significant progress and is today globally reorganised as one of the most successful programmes in recent times. India’s initial progress in the space arena was slow in comparison with the progress made by in the later days. Limited technological expertise and being an underdeveloped economy lack of financial resources were probably the key reasons for this slow growth.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Pakistan’s Space Capabilities

Nächstes Kapitel East Asia’s Space Agenda

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It is important to note that at that point in time, the only technologically sound organisation in India was perhaps the autonomic energy department and as such government had very few independent departments (e.g. in those days India’s Meteorological Department was part of Tourism sector!). Hence, it would be incorrect to link India’s nuclear and space ambitions together.

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Titel: India’s Space Programme
verfasst von: Ajey Lele
Verlag: Springer India
Buch: Asian Space Race: Rhetoric or Reality?
Print ISBN: 978-81-322-0732-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-81-322-0733-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0733-7_5

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